Mesoscale wind direction shifts in the stable boundary-layer

L. Mahrt

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00324.x

Mesoscale wind direction shifts in the stable boundary-layer

Tellus

Volume 60 (2008): Issue 4

By: L. Mahrt

Open Access

|Jan 2008

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